Help:Getting Started with mediawiki

Getting started with mediawiki

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software and this Markup specification.

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list
• Help:Contents.

mediawiki hints

• Markup specification
• text examples
• Help:Formatting
• Help Tables
• Help:Images
• Manual contents
• Namespaces explained
• Custom namespaces
• Configuring File Uploads
• maintenance scripts
• backing up the wiki
• moving the wiki to another server
• font colour names
• redirects

special pages

• Special:AllPages
• Special:Version
• category:Index
• Special:Categories
• Special:WantedPages
• MediaWiki:Sidebar

How to Manage Uploaded Files

• You can view all uploaded files via this link List Files
• upload a file via this link Upload Files

Warning, you must be logged into the media wiki in order for an Upload file item to appear in the toolbox in the left hand side panel.

How to delete a wiki page

• To delete a page, a delete token is required. This token is equal to the edit token and the same for all pages, but changes at every login. A delete token can be obtained if you are a sysop.

How to Centre all table content

• to centre (center) all table content include the following after {|

style="text-align: center;"